Apoda limacodes (Hufnagel, 1766)

Host plants:The caterpillar lives on deciduous woods. Most often you will find it on hornbeam (Carpinus), oak (Quercus) and beech (Fagus).

Habitat:Apoda limacodes inhabits forests of all kinds, if deciduous trees occur. But it prefers unlike Heterogynis asella at least partly sunny branches. Apoda limacodes is also less restricted to the forest and is also found in parks.

Life cycle:Similarly to Heterogynis asella. The cocoons are never applied to branches. The caterpillar overwinters in a cocoon and pupates in the spring. After storms caterpillars are often observed in large numbers on the forest roads between August and early October.

Endangerment factors:Apoda limacodes is common and not threatened.

Remarks: The distribution ranges from Northern Spain through Europe and Asia Minor to the Caucasus.